Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage, Alaska, The Nacheyakda’ina Exhibition Project (nacheyakda’ina means “our ancestors” in the Dena’ina Athabascan language) delves into themes such as the rich artistic traditions of Indigenous peoples throughout the state of Alaska, $75,000
Art Galleries at Black Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy explores representations of ecstasy in the work of Black queer artists from the Harlem Renaissance through today, $70,000
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, to support the first monographic exhibition of the work of Hayward Oubre, $150,000
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, to support Elizabeth Catlett: A Revolutionary Black Artist and All that It Implies (working title), co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, $225,000
Burke Museum Association, Seattle, Washington, to support Woven in Wool: The Rebirth of Traditional Coast Salish Regalia, a first-of-its-kind exhibition that embraces the power of wool regalia in all forms, $150,000
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, New York, Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial explores contemporary perspectives on the theme of home throughout the United States, its territories, and tribal nations, $100,000
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Knowing the West presents works by Indigenous artists from more than 35 distinct tribal nations and by non–Native artists in order to recontextualize historical artworks, $100,000
El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York, Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop is the artist’s first large-scale museum survey exhibition, examining her practice over a span of more than forty years and including works rarely or never before seen, $100,000
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, District of Columbia, Adam Pendleton is a multidisciplinary exploration of the artist’s practice, in which he uses text and images to recontextualize histories of Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde, $100,000
INSTITUT VALENCIA D’ART MODERN (IVAM), Valencia, Spain, Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger gives an in-depth overview of Nengudi’s and Hassinger’s practices, $50,000
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, Massachusetts, Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… is the first-ever museum retrospective of the work of Houston- and Los Angeles–based artist Vincent Valdez, $125,000
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, Andrea Morales: Roll Down Like Water—Photography and Movement Journalism in the American South is a solo exhibition of the Memphis-based Peruvian American documentary photographer Andrea Morales (b.1984), $125,000
Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, “IT’S MORE THAN A QUILLBOX”/“Ooshme Gaawiyekaajigan aawon” is a bilingual (English and Anishinaabemowin) exhibition on Anishinaabe quillwork art at the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways, $75,000
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, New York, Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry, and Ecology Along the Hudson River brings together historical and contemporary art, visual and material culture, and environmental science to engage in a critical dialogue about the art of the Hudson River, $50,000
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Jeremy Frey: Woven commemorates the artistic achievements of a celebrated Indigenous basket maker, $75,000
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, opening at London’s Mimosa House and later at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, transfeminisms explores a multiplicity of urgent, pressing, and ongoing issues faced by women, queer, and trans people across the globe, $60,000
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, STREET NIHONGA: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani explores the art of painter and collagist Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani (1920–2012), $125,000
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, to support Martin Puryear: Fifty Years, co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in collaboration with Martin Puryear, $200,000
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven surveys two decades of the artist’s practice across a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, embroidery, painting, and drawing, $75,000
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, this survey of Vietnamese American artist Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn brings together films, installations, and sculptures made in the last two decades, $75,000
